Chapter 32 Prelude VII

The impact of the four insect tides took the lives of tens of thousands of people, although most of them were residents of the Radiant Crusader territory, but the Bloody Council also paid the price of more than 10,000 civilians and hundreds of elite soldiers. The mechanical swarm moves faster than 100 kilometers per hour in an attack situation, which is not an exaggeration to describe it as a lightning attack. Moreover, the troops were divided into four routes, divided into combined attacks, and attacked the bloody council in different directions, but they were destroyed at about the same time. In the eyes of some people, this can be interpreted in many ways.

On the edge of the Arthur family's traditional territory, Oberen stood at the top of a small hill, squinting slightly, looking in the direction of the incoming mechanical swarm in the northwest. On the slope in front of the hill, the remains of various mechanical insects are densely piled up, forming a semicircular arc with the hill as the center of the circle. Behind Oberen, in addition to the inseparable Elena, there are more than a dozen people with gloomy faces and murderous bodies, which are the most elite special forces of the Arthur family. And in front of these dozen or so people, there were nearly 30,000 mechanical insect swarm wreckage.

A sudden, but not very hard-fought battle.

"These guys are coming so fast." A man said.

"And there are a lot more than expected." Another person added.

A mechanical insect is not very big, but tens of thousands of mechanical insect remains are piled together, which is all over the mountains and fields, and has a strong visual impact. Looking at the scene of the end of the world, Elena was also full of solemnity, and said, "This should not be their main force, but just a tentative attack force, right?" But...... That's all there is to it? Then their main force ......"

Oberen's face was stern, he groaned, and said slowly: "Hundreds of thousands, or even millions are possible. And I have a gut feeling that, as incredible as it may be, the challenges we're about to face are likely to be in the tens of millions. ”

"Ten million?!" Elena exclaimed in surprise and lost her voice, "Isn't that the equivalent of a mountain?" ”

Oberen smiled bitterly and said, "It's not impossible for someone who can make these things to turn an entire mountain into a swarm of mechanical insects. ”

"But......." Elena didn't ask any further. She wanted to know what she would do if she really faced a swarm of mechanical insects at the level of tens of millions. The rational choice is to flee immediately, abandoning the ancient castle that the Arthur family has inherited for hundreds of years and the base that took more than ten years to build. But in the face of Bebraz's overwhelming army, isn't it the belief in defending the family's inheritance of the castle to the death, supporting Oberen's miraculous escape from the situation of death again and again? So this time, will he abandon the family castle with irreplaceable historical and monumental significance?

This question does not need to be answered yet, but when it must be answered, I am afraid there is no choice.

Facing the wind and the heavy smell of burnt, Elena smelled a hint of the end of the world. She gently rested her head on Oberen's back and muttered, "If you have to die together, that's okay......

"What?" Oberen was distracted, not hearing what Elena was saying.

"Nothing." Elena just smiled, but didn't intend to continue.

In the northern highlands, near the ice ocean, a mountain peak that stretches for tens of kilometers and rises hundreds of meters above sea level roars and trembles, slowly sinking into the earth. The mountain was covered with fissures, and in each crack was spewing steam and dust, forming clouds of smoke that almost enveloped the entire peak. The mountain peaks sink at a speed visible to the naked eye, and when the peaks almost sink to the ground, like a volcanic eruption, a metal storm covering hundreds of square kilometers erupts from the area where the mountain is originally located! They were all large and small mechanical swarms, and instead of a few species like the swarms that attacked the Bloody Council, the storm of swarms erupting from the bottom of the mountain was as small as mosquitoes, and there were also mothership-level empty ships hundreds of meters long. And in terms of quantity, if you don't test the smallest mechanical insects, the metal storm also includes at least 10 million mechanical insects.

Both Oberen and Elena, with their keen intuition and superhuman intelligence, have unintentionally fulfilled their unintentional words: consume a mountain and create a swarm of tens of millions. If given a choice, they would never want to see it.

The sky of the whole Northland was overcast and dark, it was already autumn, and the days at such a high latitude were already pitifully short, and they were deeply shrouded in thick radiant clouds, so that although it was noon, it was as dark as dusk. The elegant and majestic starship Valhalla hovered against the clouds, its blue streamer flowing along the outer edge of the ship, from bow to stern, and regenerating at the bow. The glow of the swirling light stained the heavy clouds with a leaden blue, which should have been a very magnificent sight, but for some reason it made people feel chills when they looked at it.

The whole body of the starship trembled, and after a moment, the belly of the ship suddenly opened, and a huge and complex six-sided cylindrical object fell out, and the surface of the pillar was full of flickering blocks of light, full of mysterious aura. The six-sided pillar slowly descended and landed on the summit of a mountain below. The snow melts instantly, revealing the dark rocks below. The light emitted from the six-sided pillars shone on the rock, and in an instant, the rock turned into a dark red flowing magma, flowing in all directions. The six-sided cylinder slowly descended, sinking into the magma at a constant speed, deep into the belly of the mountain.

The six-sided cylinder that sinks into the belly of the mountain is the cornerstone of scientific and technological civilization and the source of endless energy: the space furnace. With the capabilities of the starship Valhalla, it would take more than a month to build a space furnace.

And when the space furnace sank into the belly of the mountain, more than a dozen mechanical pods ejected from Valhalla and shot down around the mountain peak. Some of them unfold directly on the ground, while others continue to burrow into the ground, even to a depth of hundreds of meters before stopping, then digging and unfurling. As a result, the working mother cabin with different functions but constituting a complete system revolves around the space furnace. The space furnace went deep into the ground nearly a thousand meters before stopping, and then the six-sided cylinder suddenly released a dazzling light, and the energy field quietly expanded, covering a radius of tens of kilometers, and penetrated into a range of kilometers. All the working mother cabins that enter the range of the energy field are immediately replenished with an endless stream of energy and begin to work at full speed. The working mother cabin first began to manufacture various machinery, and as the machinery was started in the energy field, mining, smelting, forging, processing, and assembly were gradually established and perfected. Then more machines are assembled, and then mass production begins to produce common parts that can be used by both the mother machine and the mechanical insect swarm.

Deep in the mountain, several TBMs swim out of the deepest mother cabin. They are the size of a puppy, but the tunneling drill ahead is indestructible, easily breaking and crushing the hard rock into mass-shaped particles. When the storage chambers are filled, they return and dump the collected raw materials into the newly built sorting and smelting unit to rough them into various materials. At the surface, several new workshops have been built, and TBMs are driven out of the workshops and drilled into the ground at predetermined locations. As the number of TBMs increases, so does the number of machines in each link of the production chain.

In Valhalla's central control room, Fizdeck floated high near the rooftop, countless bands of jΓΉ light extending from his body, sending nuanced commands to each of the tiniest mechanical bugs. And below him, a three-dimensional hologram of a land mass, covering the entire northern continent. Almost everywhere is shiny, except for the Bloody Council's sphere of influence, which is dark and has no information to feed back. In addition, there are only a few dark spots on the mainland, and the blind spots of these information are very eye-catching. At the northern tip of the continent are long mountainous areas that shine with different colors representing different resources. Minerals of all kinds are important, of course, but with Fizdeck's mastery of technology, almost any substance can be used to build his mechanical army. You can see a striking red dot shining under a mountain peak, and it is constantly radiating a reddish light. This is the mark of the space furnace, and the range of red light radiation is the range that can receive the energy transmission of the space furnace. Beneath that peak, thin lines are spreading rapidly, intertwining into a web. When it is denser than a spider's web and only shows a patch of color on the hologram, it means that the resource is close to being harvested, and tens of millions of mechanical insect swarms will break through the remaining passage of the mined resource, forming a new metal storm that will sweep through the channel.

Now, next to the new site logo, the numbers representing the various types of machinery are jumping and increasing at a constant acceleration.

On the other side of the map, a striking red dot representing another space furnace is moving, flying towards a new designated area. It moves in tandem with the attached manufacturing system, and will soon take root in new areas and begin producing new swarms of mechanical bugs.

On the floor of the central control room, Seredra was looking up at the holographic map in mid-air, her expression uncertain. She didn't have a single piece of clothing on her, and her 5-meter-tall body continued to radiate a blazing light, as if it was burning with flames. Wherever the light went, all the bands of light were distorted and distorted. Fortunately, Seredra controlled the flames emanating from her body and did not let it spill out 5 meters away. This is the result of Fizdeck's protest, otherwise if she is allowed to release the energy light flame, all digital connections will be severed, and Fizdek's mechanical army will be truly scrapped.

Although Seredra's body is huge, the proportions and lines are the perfect body of a human woman, and it is very seductive. However, Fizdecker didn't seem to have any interest in her body at all, even if he glanced at it occasionally, his expression was also blank, as if he was looking at a statue, and there was no feeling of a man looking at a woman at all. Seredra's eyes were fixed on the seat of the Bloody Council. It was dark, with only four small gaps in the corners. It was the information obtained during the invasion of the four mechanical insect swarms, but before it could penetrate deeply, it had been completely destroyed, so four small gaps were carved into the edge of the darkness.

The Bloody Council is like a sleeping giant, and when disturbed, it is terrifying. N